Method and device for making cigar-fillers.



I No. 866,233. PATENTED SEPT. 17, 1907.

J. STEPHAN.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGAR PILLERS.

APPLIGATION FILED SBPT.6,1908.

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METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGAR-FILLERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed September 6,1906. Serial No. 833,581.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JonANNEs STErnAN, a subject of Germany, residing atWitzenhausen, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements inMethods and Devices for Making Jigar-Fillers, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of forming cigarfillers by means of divided molds being submitted to pressure with theaid ofa common cover. If these individual molds, made according to awell known construction, of spring controlled halves adapted to befolded up on hinges, are inserted in a box with partitions so that saidpartitions keep the individual molds closed after the removal of thepressing cover, there results a disadvantage in so far as the wood ofthe molds and boxes expands, during moist weather, and swells, renderingthus a rapid manipulation of the utensils, difficult if not impossible.This method of preparing and of forming the fillers has the furtherdisadvantage that sand and small tobacco particles may easily enter thesingle compartments of the boxes, and if such foreign bodies are notremoved regularly and completely by the operator, they too, impede theuse of the whole. In the present invention, said causes that are liableto impede the work, are prevented, by simple means, in such a mannerthat the box which receives the molds with sufiicient play, is turnedupside down together with the pressing cover after the latter has beenlaid thereon, so that said pressing cover lies at the bottom, the boxbeing then lifted off upwards whereby the molds remain on the cover. Forthis mode of operation it is necessary that the molds should have someplay in the box in order to allow said box to be lifted off in thedescribed manner and therefore the apparatus has been constructed sothat the molds in the box, which box requires no partitions, aresurrounded by movable borders so as to obtain a certain junction, whilepreserving, at the same time, the mobility desired for fitting up thepressing cover.

Thedrawing represents, by way of example, a form of execution of thisinvention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a cross sectional view. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe box. Fig. 3 is a plan of the cover with the molds therein. Fig. 4 isa detail.

Fig. 1 shows the moldsa placed in the box 0 one directly by the side ofanother and provided at the recess at the bottom, where the joints orhinges b unite the halves ofthe molds, with springs b so that each moldis kept closed without direct lateral support. In Fig. 1 the pressingcover F is laid on. Within the frame formed by box 0, are longitudinaland transversal borders G, H. The latter are loosely inserted andsuper-posed bars I prevent them from falling out. Said borders aid incausing the lower halves a of the molds to be easily and securely fittedtogether in the box and theupper halves a of the molds are carried onthe pressing cover. After having laidon the cover F with the halves orengaging with the halves a, the invention is carried out in thefollowing manner:

The fillers having been properly pressed-off in the molds, the entireapparatus is turned upside down and placed upon the cover so that thereceiving box 0 lies on top. Under slight pressure exerted upon thecover f, the receiving box can now be lifted off from the molds awhereby the individual molds remain on cover f. The operator who rollstakes then the molds a, one after another, from the sections a whichconstitute the upper halves. The mold is then seized between the thumband forefinger and pressed together against the action of the springwhich action releases the filler. Immediately after having been emptied,each mold a can again be placed, in the same order, into the receivingbox 0, according to the number which is preferably placed on it.

The advantages attained with this mode of working are the following: Theoperator can remove the filler from the spring controlled mold in aneasier and more secure manner so that the amount of work performed bysaid operator is decreased. It is also evident that when the apparatusis regularly turned upsidedown, whereby the molds a remain on thesections a of the cover f, the receiving box 0 is freed from sand andfrom tobacco particles that have entered it during the work.

I claim:

Means for making cigar fillers comprising a box, molds each having arecess in its upper end and composed of two portions and a spring forholding the portions together, said molds being adapted to be placed inthe box with their recesses uppermost, a cover for said box havingprojecting mold sections a thereon adapted to enter the two recesses inthe molds to compress the tobacco.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHANNES STEPHAN. 4 Witnesses OSCAR HILLE, HEINRICH ORTH.

